New Delhi: After five days of constant pressure on the President to impose Article 356 (President's rule) in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress seems to have finally given up.
The relenting of pressure, which is a relief for Mulayam, comes in the wake of the Election Commission announcing the schedule for Assembly polls in the state on Wednesday.
After the Election Commission's announcement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a meeting with Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Law Minister H R Bhardwaj, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Defence Minister A K Antony on the state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh.
On February 17, UP Governor T V Rajeshwar had written to the Centre saying that the Mulayam Singh government has lost the moral right to stay in power.
He had asked for the Centre to impose President's rule in the state.
The Congress Government at the Centre had stood firm behind the Governor and had it not been for the CPI-M opposing the move, the state may have very well be put under President's rule.
News agency PTI quoted highly-placed sources in Congress as saying that there were absolutely no plans regarding use of Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh.
(With inputs from PTI)
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